William Shakespeare

God, this guy really knew what he was talking about...

Some cool stuff i've found

Hi! I realise I haven't blogged in AGES so I'm going to start again by telling you all about some artists that I completely admire!

Yu Matsuoka

Yu Matsuoka is Japanese and has lived in france and belgium for almost ten years, She says that she likes to express herself through art and uses canvas, oil colour, many different sketchbooks but she also likes to use markers.

The work below is marker on paper and I love them both because there is no 'subject', you don't have to understand what they mean or are about you just accept and perceive them. Her work is very smooth and continuous, you see it and know instantly that you like it, they don't have to be real or substantial, they are just decorous and commendable. 

My Articles

Hi Everyone!
I haven't blogged recently because I have been very busy writing articles for the Citizen newspaper! Well! that's a bit of an upgrade isn't it, first a simple blog, then writing for the Citizen!
I hope to write more entries soon because I have some great ideas!
Scarlett x

My new canvas

'Just jump' by Scarlett Miller 

I made this yesterday, hope you like it!!

My stamp

Today I experimented with stamps and created this:

Then I got a board and chose a colour ink, the. I rolled the ink over the stamp and pressed it onto pieces of paper, these are the results (I used different inks and colours):

I like the effect of the dark purple above because its a dark colour and it makes the white bits stand out.

A 3D paper me!

Today I made a 3D picture of me out of paper! Here it is:

Photography

I have got interested in photography. YAY!! Random I know. These are some pictures I've taken of roses in my garden

Some things I have been working on:

I got this new scrapbook/ journal for my birthday by K&COMPANY it has some 

great pages and pieces to collect.

Hello everyone…

Hi everyone I just wanted to say that the reason I haven't been blogging recently is because I had an operation yesterday on my eye, I'll probably be back to regular activities by sometime next week. Sorry :(

My stamps

Again I have been making stamps from pieces of polystyrene but I have tried to make my design a little more complex. 

I have drawn out this design on to polystyrene:

These are the effects:

My favourite is the dark greenish colour because more of the stamp is shown.

Salvador Dali the persistence of memory

I have used watercolour to copy Salvador Dali's the persistence of memory. Here it is:

I have also copied a print by the artist Ruscha called 'noise':

Art academy

For the next 3 Thursdays me and my sister are going to art academy, it's basically a child minder club kind of thing where we focus on different artists and works, yesterday me and my sister made these: 

They came from the idea of Monet's water lilies, mine is the one on the right.

We also spend time at the beginning doing doodles and this is a picture of something that my sister drew:

I also did one:

Nature in art

Today me and sister went to Nature in art to take a course in stamping.

We did two different techniques, the first one we did was where we drew a design based on nature (i did a shell) onto a block  of wood and covered it in glue and the we got some string and cut it into bits and stuck it over the pencil lines, personally when I did I it it didn't really work very well:

(It's covered in paint btw)

The other technique we did was when we drew a design with a marker onto some polystyrene and then we got a sharp pencil and carved into the lines, this is what my stamp looked like:

(It's covered in orange paint)

Then we gathered both stamps and chose a coloured ink or poster paint, we then poured a pea size amount onto a board and rolled it out with some rollers, then we rolled over the stamps until they were covered  in ink and placed it onto a piece of card and rolled over the top, we then pulled away the stamp and this was what I was left with:

I didn't think that I used enough paint so I had some other go's experimenting with different colour card and paint:

It's a very fun and easy to do method, why don't you have a go or comment below?

My animation

This week I have been working on an animation of the frog prince, these are the figures I have created:

:)

I LOVE THESE!!

ALL OFF THESE PICTURES ARE BY MY STEP DADS NEPHEW JAMES THOMAS, YOU CAN  FIND THESE AND MORE ON HIS FACEBOOK PAGE (HE'S KNOWN AS J52o)